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Tucson police: Woman shoots 2 intruders dead
Shaq Davis Arizona Daily Star Oct 17, 2019 Updated Oct 23, 2019
A woman shot and killed two men who were trying to break into her midtown home early Wednesday morning, police said.
The woman was not injured in the confrontation. Her home was specifically targeted in the attempted home invasion, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, Tucson Police Department spokesman. The attempted home invasion appears to have been narcotics related, he said.
Officer Frank Magos, a Tucson police spokesman gave the following account in a news release:
The woman, who was alone in the home, woke up around 3:45 a.m. to noise coming from the rear of the house.
She confronted and shot the two men accused of trying to force their way into the home in the 4600 block of East Duncan Street. The home is near North Swan and East Grant roads.
The woman then sought help from a neighbor and called 911.
Officers arrived to find the two who were shot, Corey Teixeira, 18, and Ali Mohamed, 18, in the home’s backyard.
Teixeira was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities transported Mohamed to a hospital where he died shortly after arriving.
It is unclear if the woman will face charges, Dugan said.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call 88-CRIME, an anonymous tipster line.
Wednesday’s shooting is one of more than 100 incidents in the area reported to law enforcement in the past six months, according to Crime Reports, a crime-tracking website.
“I’m definitely going to get a gun to protect myself, too,” said Jay Spencer, a neighbor who has lived in the area for about seven months.
Spencer said that in the short time he has lived there, he already has caught a man attempting to break into the rear of his home. When police arrived, the man had already fled, he said.
He said there have been several other recent crime-related incidents in the neighborhood, including a woman reporting a break-in at her home, items stolen from a truck, as well as a person shown on video stealing a cactus from a home.
“There’s not enough enforcement, to be honest,” Spencer said.
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-woman-shoots-intruders-dead/article_c70d5fe6-f022-11e9-99d7-fbeb8a97095c.html
Ohhhhhh - it appears that the story doesn't end there though!
Detectives said in the court document that two “spent” .38 caliber shell casings were recovered from the property. Other items taken by police included: a Remington 870 shotgun; two .38 caliber Smith & Wesson Special Revolvers; a knife; suspected psilocybin mushrooms; LSD sheets and tablets; marijuana seeds; packaging materials; and a vacuum sealer, according to the document.
Pills suspected to be Xanax, a knife sheath and duffel bags were taken from a vehicle apparently used by the two slain men, according to the document.
The woman has not been charged with a crime.
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/drugs-guns-found-in-home-of-tucson-woman-who-shot/article_1e23a3c8-5dcb-5db4-9bff-f3e5295fe5c3.html
So, then, is this young lady dealing in illicit drugs? Not charged with a crime? Does that mean the drugs found don't belong to her? The guys breaking in brought the drugs with them? Hmmmmm . . . Maybe she has just very, very recently started dating the sheriff?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday October 26 2019, @09:37PM (19 children)
"...one is for shooting, the other has filled me with shame and inadequacy since the age of 13."
You are a walking stereotype, Runaway, you know that?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:08PM (18 children)
Whatever you say, 'Zumi. But, you'll remember that stereotypes define the person observing them, more than they define the person being described.
Is that "other party" raging on and on about taking away America's guns, or are they not? Each and every one of the D candidates have run off at the mouth, about taking away the guns. You know what? I wish Beat-off Orourke would come to my house, to take my guns. The fucking idiot didn't even know that AR-15 rifles are commonly used in hunting. Of course, that fact is irrelevant to the discussion. The founding fathers guaranteed that we have weapons, so that we can shoot traitors before they can steal our guns.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:14PM (14 children)
Yeah but that's because the 5.56mm ammo and many of the parts and accessories are cheap since the AR-15 family is produced to scale for the armed forces. That is, the M16 is a subsidized weapon. From the public sector. For socialists. Dirty, pink, freedom-hating socialists... :D
Anywho, hoe and shovel, that vermin shooter isn't suitable for most hunting. Like, the bullets bounce off hog skulls and run around messing up deer innards making everything bitter and forcing you to lug around a fucking metal detector like some kind of weekend beach prospector... And then there's the jams... Oh God I can hear that damn smug face Sargent screaming S.P.O.R.T.S.! S.P.O.R.T.S.! like the fucking retard they were...
Ok, I may have had a few bad experiences affecting my judgment. Maybe even a trauma or three. And probably waking up in the middle of night looking for that broom years after the medical discharge may suggest PTSD of some sorts... But I swear, that's one vile way to do any sorts of hunting.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:29PM (8 children)
You're aware that AR-15 comes in other calibers? AR has become a pretty generic term. So generic, in fact, that the media blames every shooting on AR-15's, even if the weapon involved is a revolver, or a shotgun, or . . .
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:41PM
But, why on earth would you buy an AR-15 if not for the cheap ammo? It's a turd. Here, a classic: http://madogre.com/?p=174 [madogre.com]
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(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:55AM (6 children)
No, it does not. Truly, you are an idiot, Runaway! NATO standard 5.56mm, that's it. You can't get an AR-15 in 9mm Luger Parabellum, just 'cause you love the Turd Reich. You cannot get an AR-15 in the Warsaw Pact 7.62×39mm, because that would just turn the mass-shooting weapon in to a suicide device. How can you claim to be a proponent of the Second Amendment, when you know so little about firearms, Runaway? Is it because you are a Russian bot? Or because you are a redneck hillbilly ignoramous that loves him some Trump? Idiot? Or double idiot?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @09:26AM (2 children)
Hillbilly moron
Many times I think he is a Russian shill, but the way Azuma gets under his skin I find it hard to believe he is a shillbot.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:13PM (1 child)
Are you suggesting both Azuma and Runaway are Russian bots? I don't know who is botting who anymore.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday October 30 2019, @02:11AM
To be fair, I do like Slavic cooking and am planning to make some pelmeni soon. But that doesn't really count, does it? I'm not Punjabi because I like making curries, so...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:36AM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AR_platform_calibers [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 29 2019, @09:25AM
I am just imaging an AR-15 in .458 Mag. Elephant assault Rifle? Equally capable for Cape Buffalo, except for its tendency to jam, or explode in the user' hands (and head). So why not just settle for a sensible double rifle, say in Rigby .577 Express, or one of the more powerful cartridges? Two shots, ultimately reliable, and that is all any real hunter ever needs. No need to lower yourself to the weapons of the proletarian armies of the world, old Chap!
(Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:14PM
Technically you're both right. The original ArmaLite 15 as sold to the military by Colt was exclusively manufactured in 5.56mm caliber. Colt themselves only produced it in 5.56/.223 with the exception of the 9mm Cold SMG. However, that was an 80s weapon long past the expiration of the patents and, while it still used the direct impingement gas operation system, it wasn't using the AR-15 trademark which Colt still held so even Colt didn't consider it an AR-15.
So, when talking about Colt AR-15 / M16 rifle, you're exclusively talking about a 5.56mm rifle.
Now comes the AR-15 "platform": From the moment Colt's patents expired in the 70s, other other manufacturers and third parties marketed their ARs and accessories under the "AR-15 style" or "AR-15 Platform" avoiding Colt's trademark. The Colt SMG is, in fact, such a weapon.
So, it all depends on what you're referring to when you talk about the AR-15. It also depends on the period's gun laws... But I'm not going into that.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:46AM (3 children)
And?
Not the definition of "subsidy".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:58AM (2 children)
Yeah, and khallow probably drives a mass produced Jeep, developed with government funds, subsidized by government funds, and would not even exist without the Military-Industrial Complex. You are a socialist, khallow! You are a living, walking, bullshitting contradiction to everything you believe in! The obvious rebuttal is, well, there is no obvious rebuttal, is there? You are a functing fascist socialist.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday October 27 2019, @01:41PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 29 2019, @09:31AM
You government leech, khallow! We know you are sucking at the Government teat there in Yellowstone, one way or another. And an AR-15 is seriously under-gunned for the Rocky Mountains, tenderfoot!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:22AM
Why is that drivel moderated "informative"?
AR-15 calibers and cartridges? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5mqta79ZuU [youtube.com]
Hog hunting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKgTjUD69U [youtube.com]
Deer hunting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpPWPmKlAQ [youtube.com]
Every assertion put forth in the post readily refuted, except the government subsidies for research and development.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday October 27 2019, @03:20AM (1 child)
With a name like that, I'm guessing he'd be less interested in your rifles?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @08:05AM
But with looks like Runaway's, when you beat if off, you really hope for the "off" option. Then the bleed out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @09:21AM
So you finally agree Trump is a traitor? Bout fucking time you ugly human dloth.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:09PM (7 children)
Breaking into a home where there is currently a person is just suicide by home owner. There is no peaceful reason to break into someones home so deadly force is completely acceptable, and beneficial to society. One less thief. One less rapist. One less murderer.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:59AM (6 children)
One less Republican.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @07:50AM (5 children)
Funny - you missed the discussion where it was discovered that most convicts are Dems. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jail-survey-7-in-10-felons-register-as-democrats [washingtonexaminer.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @08:10AM (4 children)
And YOU missed the nice little statistics that 4 times as many Democrats possess guns as Republicans, and Republicans, as a percentage of the population, are more likely to engage in theft, thievery, home-invasions, burgularly, imbezzlement, tax fraud, real estate fraud, Casino development, immolument, collusion with foreign powers, sex with Russian gun chicks, and jaywalking. The real criminals in this situation is Runaway himself, for what he has done. If Bailey's ever finds out . . .
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @08:16AM (3 children)
And, Democrats are leventy-leven time more likely to commit buggery with a dog, a monkey, or an ugly mule.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @09:18AM (2 children)
So much projection from the resident sheep fucker.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @09:34AM (1 child)
That would be Aristarchus, the resident Greek sheepfucker and boyfucker.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Sulla on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:17PM
Herodotus, 440BC
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:11PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:48PM (8 children)
Is it still self defense [reason.com]?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:03AM (2 children)
If someone enters my home uninvited, regardless of whether they are a cop or not it is self defence. Maybe don't do no-knock raids. Maybe don't do no-knock raids on the wrong house.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:07AM (1 child)
Yes, it is self defense, but you are at the mercy of the courts. You're bound to lose a lot of time and money
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:21AM
More likely if you shoot a cop the rest of the cops will shoot your house until it falls down and then drive their bearcat back and forth over the rubble looking for 'survivors'.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @07:54AM (4 children)
Yes, it is self defense, even if the intruder is a cop. Of course, the cops are going to lie their asses off, and paint you as a criminal, but it is still self defense.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @08:12AM (3 children)
No, it's not. It's murder if she invited them over to her backyard, and shot them to steal their drugs. Murder One! Stand your Ground, American criminal Rifleman persons! The NRA will sell you insurance against charges of murder one. Seriously.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:24AM
Yes, because people invited into a backyard for a drug fest always break down your back door to get at your munchies.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:19PM (1 child)
Home invasiuons are just like abortion. You get to invite someone in and withdraw concent whenever you want and then kill the person.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:34PM
"Note to self: cancel dinner at Sulla's next week."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:54PM (21 children)
Could be good policy to not charge crime victims with relatively minor crimes they may have committed. Otherwise it may just drive people to seek justice outside of the law.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:05AM (20 children)
Also would work well to scare people into not working outside the law. If you fear a minor infraction taking you down after defending yourself you might weigh how risky it is to allow the attacker to steal your stuff and/or rape you.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday October 27 2019, @07:03AM (19 children)
OK, now I am curious.
Just how risky is it to steal your stuff and rape you, Sulla, as opposed to the opposite? Is it more risky to pull out my Pistola, and have it taken away from me, and used to kill me, steal my stuff, and rape my dead body, and do the same to my dog, and my accountant? Sulla, you have some sick paranoid fantasies, like most pro-business Republicans. I suggest therapy, and a dose of reality.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @07:57AM (18 children)
There is no risk to me, if you pull out your pistola, so that the bad guy can take it away from you, use it to kill you, steal your stuff, rape your dead body, shoot and rape your dog, then shoot and rape your accountant. If that's what gets you off, Aristarchus, fine. Just keep it in the privacy of your own home.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:24AM (17 children)
You just know that 'zumi is going to link to this post to prove that you are ok with raping dogs and accountants, so long as you do it in your own home.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @11:25AM
LMAO
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 27 2019, @06:58PM (15 children)
I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it...no, not even an accountant would put out for Runaway. He's the kind of guy whose right hands gets five separate headaches, one for each finger, out of pure self-defense whenever he thinks about whacking off. That's how unloveable he is.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 27 2019, @09:13PM (14 children)
For a person who has learned everything there is to learn, and has enough karma to not come back to life again, you sure spend a lot of time wallowing in filth like a hog. What's with the personal attacks? Do you secretly want to get together with Runaway?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 28 2019, @01:14AM (13 children)
Talking about yourself in the third person is a sign of dementia. Or that you forgot you were logged in and meant to post an anonymous troll, but fucked up :) Now look here, I never said I'd learned everything there is to learn, just that I've learned enough that reincarnating here would be somewhere between futile and incredibly stupid. You have an odd definition of "wallowing in filth," too, Mr. Gun Porn...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 28 2019, @06:44AM (12 children)
Gun porn is good clean fun, and it trains you to be somewhat more ready if the animals attack you - two legged or otherwise. You've already let slip that you carry, so you have no moral high ground on the issue.
Me? I don't even carry. Despite my love of guns, I don't carry. In some specific situations in my lifetime, I have carried, after I left the military. As a rule, I can't be assed to care properly for a lethal weapon, so I don't carry.
Where I have the moral high ground on you, is not weapons, but on your routinely inquiring and/or commenting on my sex life and/or desirability to women. You have a demonstrated interest in me, while I have no interest in you, physically. That probably pisses you off more than any other thing I have ever said to or about you. No matter how physically attractive a woman might be, she can destroy that attractiveness just by opening her mouth. And, you know that you have repeatedly destroyed any shred of attractiveness, time and time again.
Women are funny though. Women are often attracted to whoever they consider to be "bad boys", and I am among the baddest, by your own estimation.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @07:16AM (2 children)
Women are often attracted to whoever they consider to be "bad boys"
"bad boys" put out lots of pheromones, and there's always the female attraction to the alpha... pre-school science
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @12:43PM
You're saying that bad boys are more manly?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @04:07PM
You actually bought that line? It was bullshit pushed by 4chan memers to get people at conventions to not shower thinking their BO would be attractive. Take a shower please.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 28 2019, @11:05PM (8 children)
The delusion it takes to type something like that is staggering. If you aren't deliberately trolling as hard as you can, that's crossing the line into psychiatric illness.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 29 2019, @12:31AM (7 children)
You will note that Runaway has never inquired into your love life, or your sex life, or cast aspersions on your adequacy, or lack thereof, or initiated any conversation with you on the subject of sex, or other intimate relations. This subject is invariably initiated by 'Zumi, not by Runaway. Get out of the mud.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday October 29 2019, @12:43AM (5 children)
The reason you haven't is that I don't have anything to be malcontent about :) So it's not a fruitful avenue of attack against me.
It obviously bothers the ever-living hell out of you, though, else you wouldn't be so completely up in arms and spending damn near every other post howling about how supposedly filthy I am. I'm amazed you haven't caught on yet, though maybe I shouldn't be given your past performance...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 29 2019, @02:35AM (4 children)
As a woman, I'll tell you straight up that you are a trashy troll.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday October 30 2019, @02:09AM (3 children)
As a me, I'll tell you I don't care if you think I'm trashy or trollish. Runaway's slipped his skiff and there's nothing left to do with him except poke him and see how he reacts. This guy isn't a functioning human being any longer. To paraphrase, "Fox News did to him what he was worried Mortal Kombat would do to his kids." What do you do with someone like that? Reasoning with someone who's given up the use of reason is like giving CPR to a three-week-old flyblown corpse.
Sad, isn't it?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Sally_G on Wednesday October 30 2019, @06:19AM (2 children)
So, what is your nick on 4chan? That's where all the edgelords hang out, isn't it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:16PM
So you must be TMB's pal, mistaking very straightforward criticism for 4chan level trolling.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Saturday November 02 2019, @07:28AM
That's a pretty low blow.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 29 2019, @02:55AM
https://www.verywellmind.com/how-common-is-female-to-female-sexual-harassment-4134990 [verywellmind.com]
In short, Azuma Hazuki imagines that she has somehow taken control when she steers the conversation toward your sexuality.